Comment 1 for bug 600329

I had also problems with the import of pictures taken with the camera of my girlfriend. (fspot 7.1)
I've changed the exif data with a little program called jhead. see http://blog.techfun.org/2009/11/how-...les-in-ubuntu/
i used this arguments : $jhead -mkexif -rgt "path to your photos"/*.JPG
"path to your photos" you have to complete accordingly to your photo directory.
these arguments makes a basic exif with just the thumbnail and the date the photo was taken.
After that i was able to import the photos.
warning: this will remove some data from the photo: like exposure, shutterspeed,...

I don't know if it is the same problem here. But for me it helped and maybe it can be used as a workarround until it get fixed.